YANNIMA TOMMY WATSON - PIRURPA KALARIJTJA (EAGLE DREAMING)
YANNIMA TOMMY WATSON
PIRURPA KALARIJTJA (EAGLE DREAMING), 2013
102 x 112 cm each
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
REGION
Wanarn, WA
PROVENANCE
Yanda Art, NT Cat No. TW201368
Piermarq, NSW
Private Collection, NSW
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
STORY
The artist has depicted the country of his birth not far from Kata Juta and Uluru. According to the creation story for this area a major battle took place between the White Cockatoo and the Eagle, during which white feathers were scattered about and the landscape became indented by the entangled protagonists crashing to the ground several times. Here we see underground water in the form of the subterranean streams that filled these depressions with water and the circular amphitheatre that was created by the sweep of wings.
In keeping with the depiction of Dreaming stories throughout the Western Desert, the landscape is rendered sacred and numinous through the actions of mythic creator beings during it formation.
EXHIBITED
Outback to Abstract, August 2019, Cooee Art Paddington
ARTIST PROFILE
